A rude, rustic fellow.

Boorish; rude.

A blockhead; a dolt.

Stupid; dull; doltish.

A stupid fellow; a dolt.

Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.

To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter.

obstructed so as to prevent or hinder flow of a fluid; -- of conduits; as, clogged pipes; clogged arteries.

The state of being clogged.

Anything which clogs.

Clogging, or having power to clog.

Inlaid between partitions: -- said of enamel when the lines which divide the different patches of fields are composed of a kind of metal wire secured to the ground; as distinguished from champlev/ enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel.

To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.

Cloistral.

Dwelling in cloisters; solitary.

One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.

Of, pertaining to, or confined in, a cloister; recluse.

A nun.

See Cloak.

imp. p. p. of Climb (for climbed).

See Clamp.

to make a clone from; to make identical copies of an organism by a non-sexual process of reproduction.

imp. of Cling.

Having an irregular, convulsive motion.

A series of muscular contractions due to sudden stretching of the muscle, -- a sign of certain neuropathies.

To close with glutinous matter.

The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.

One of the divisions of a cleft hoof, as in the ox; also, the whole hoof.

A little hoof.

any alga of the genus Chlorella.

a commercial bleaching agent, consisting of a 5.25% aqueous solution of sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl). Other similar solutions of sodium hypochlorite are sometimes referred to as clorox.

In a close manner.

Closely united.

Firmly barred or closed.

Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment.

Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters.

dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells.

Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; having the sails trimmed for sailing as close to the wind as possible; -- said of a sailing vessel.

not ready to receive new ideas.

grouped closely together.

arranged close together; as, close-set eyes; close-set teeth.

A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover.

Closemouthed; silent.

having an opening obstructed.

having atoms linked by bonds which form a ring.

not ready to receive new ideas.

same as closed-chain.

termination of operations; a shutdown.

Covetous; niggardly.

Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted.

In a close manner.

owned by a relatively few shareholders; -- of business organizations; as, a closely-held corporation.

bound together by intimate ties, social, personal, cultural or political; as, closely-knit little villages; a close-knit family.

Cautious in speaking; secret; wary; uncommunicative.

To make close.

The state of being close.

One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot.

Having all the reefs taken in; -- said of a sail.

To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal.

a photograph or other recorded image taken at close range, or using a telephoto lens so as to appear to have been taken at close range; -- used especially of images of faces in which the face fills all or most of the photograph.

the act of closing something.

spindle-shaped bacterial cell esp. one swollen at the center by an endospore.

The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink.

To form into, or cover with, clots; to cause to coagulate; to make into a slimy mass.

The burdock.

The common burdock; the clotbur.

A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others.

having rigid front and back covers, covered with cloth; -- of books. Contrasted to softcover.

To wear clothes.

wearing clothing.

Covering for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; -- a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort.

a brush used for cleaning clothing.

A frame to hang clothes on.

unclothed. Opposite of clothed.

A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.

A forked piece of wood or plastic, or a small device with a spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.

A receptacle for clothes.

One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth.

Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering.

Clottered.

See Clodpoll.

Composed of clots or clods; having the quality or form of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul.

To concrete into lumps; to clot.

Full of clots, or clods.

See Closure, 5.

Cocklebur.

To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often used with up.

Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary.

A sudden copious rainfall, as if the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.

Having clouds resting on the top or head; reaching to the clouds; as, cloud-capped mountains.

Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus.

an imaginary place where fantasy and illusion predominate; it is a place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality.

a state of extreme or perfect happiness; used especially in the phrase on cloud nine.

Mass of clouds; cloudiness.

A species of raspberry (Rubus Cham/merous) growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.

In a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely.

The state of being cloudy.

A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing.

Dreamland.

Without a cloud; clear; bright.

A little cloud.

resembling a cloud.

Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy sky.

An allowance in weighing. See Cloff.

To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout.

Clumsy; awkward.

One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic.

from Cleave, v. t.

Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox.

A plant of different species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, Trifolium pratense, the white, Trifolium repens, and the hare's foot, Trifolium arvense.

Covered with growing clover.

a highway interchange between two roads in which the connecting road pattern resembles a four-leaf clover, and which allows moving from one road to another without left-hand turns. One road passes over the other, and the exit from one highway and entrance into the second highway proceeds from the right-hand lane in all directions.

a hairy Eurasian plant (Geum urbanum) with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally.

a group of cats.

Spice clove.

To act as a clown; -- with it.

Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery.

Clownishness.

acting like a clown or buffoon.

Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward.